Some thoughts on ordinary things.
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Ordinary magic
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Recipe: Cherry Tomato Tart
I made this tart for my Dad’s 80th birthday and promised to share the recipe
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In the Press: The Weekender
German magazine The Weekender has a 16 page Skinny laMinx feature in issue 22.
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Best Things: Holidays at home
We spent our holiday very much at home, which was a really good thing to do after a rather disrupted home in 2015. Shortly after having bought the apartment next door early in the year, we found our neighbours were going to have a baby in November, so we rather hastily started our long dreamed-of …
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Best Things #02
We’ve just bought the studio apartment next door to ours, with the intention of bashing through to expand our 80 sq/m 2 bedroom flat into a roomy open planned 120 m/sq space. This is why I haven’t been doing much online this week, other than pin thrilling wide-open loft-style apartments to my I Could Live There …
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Colours of Echevaria
We have loads of succulents at home and on the studio roof garden, but I have never been very good at remembering their botanical names. However, the name of the Echevaria genus – named after the 18th century Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (thanks, Wikipedia) – has managed to stick. That’s because all of a sudden, …
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Lessons from a Monkey
What a hot weekend! Early morning dips in the sea and Myyög have helped us survive, but mostly we’ve stayed indoors, watching and learning from the Monkey, who is an expert in the art of minimal movement. She knows exactly how to lie in a boneless heap for hours, occasionally making token signs of life …
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Back and forth
It’s been a crazy week of backing and forthing between studio and home this week, as we renovate the studio upstairs, and electricity goes on and off at home rather unpredictably. So while work has been a bit patchy, I’ve seen a lot of pavement and street markings on my travels, to nice effect.
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What are you reading?
In 2010, Paul and I spent 7 weeks in NYC, and ever since, we’ve had a subscription to New York magazine. It’s such a great read, and is brilliant for keeping a person up-to-date on what’s up in fashion, theatre, movies, books, food, etc. The only thing is, a new issue arrives every. single. week. …
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